National Govt & Politics
Today in History May 22
Highlights of this day in history: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign the 'Pact of Steel'; Richard Nixon is the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union; Actor Laurence Olivier born; Johnny Carson hosts his last 'Tonight Show.' (Ma...
Raw: Students Clash With Police in Chile
Students demanding wider free education clashed with police in Valparaiso, Chile on Tuesday as President Sebastian Pinera's delivered his final state of the nation speech to Congress. (May 21)
Raw: Costa Rica Volcano Roars to Life
Costa Rica's Turrialba volcano erupted on Tuesday, shooting out rocks and a huge column of ash. (May 21)
Ohio lawmakers still divided on budget cuts
Nearly three months after the federal government slashed discretionary federal spending, the region’s congressional delegation remains divided on what the impact of those cuts will be.During the second day of the Dayton Development Coalition’s annual “fly-in” to Washington, D.C., federal lawmakers focused heavily on the spending cuts, known in Washington-speak ...
IRS official to plead Fifth before Congress
The lawyer for a senior Internal Revenue Service official who first disclosed that the agency was targeting conservative organizations, said his client would refuse to testify today before a House panel investigating unfair treatment of groups seeking tax-exempt status.Lois Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt organizations division of the IRS, ...
Raw: Searching for Cars After the Storm
Harvey and Terry Brown survived the tornado inside the Moore Medical Center on Monday. When they came outside, their Honda Civic was nowhere to be found. (May 21)
Families Begin Returning to Their Homes in Moore
Workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado claimed 24 lives. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an...
IRS official to take the Fifth before Congress
Back on May 10, Lois Lerner was the first IRS official to speak publicly about the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service; now it seems that she will be the first IRS official to take the Fifth Amendment in a Congressional probe of that targeting. "Pleading the ...
Lawyer: Feds Investigating Susan Powell Case
The lawyer for missing Utah woman Susan Powell's parents, Anne Bremner, said Tuesday in Seattle that federal authorities are looking into what the missing woman's father-in-law might have known. (May 21)
Raw: Aerial View of Moore Tornado Damage
The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore was a top-of-the-scale EF5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph. It cut a path 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide. Aerial video shows the path of destruction. (May 21)
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